XGoon: Do we signal or not?Jamon: Darwin said no civilians cause it ain't our territory.Lena: Look, just ask after her with Rafe. As a favor to me, since you set on pretending it's not your business.Murdoch: What makes you think it is my business?Goon: I thought he never left with nobody!Jamon: Maybe he ain't. Maybe she'll go back inside.Lena: What makes you think it isn't?Murdoch: Rafe the one hurt by a snatch --Lena: Rafe don't have that class of enemy.Murdoch: I don't got that class of enemy, not living. Save Lafayette. An' Darwin wouldn't.Lena: You're good at that sort of read. But --Murdoch: No but. Boy's too proud for low dealing. Once he figure out he can't hurt me, he'll take a blood price. He hates my guts, but he's no fool, that kid.Goon: Let me see.Jamon: No, dammit, get back from --Lena: 'Kid'? You've got, what, six years on him? You couldn't have been much older when you made tete.Jamon: -- the window --Murdoch: That was different --

That was a longer break than I was hoping for (in my defense, aside from learning to juggle an infant and work and life and, oh, hey, comic, life has been doing its usual for me -- I've had everything from hospitalized family members to SURPRISE! Government! Inspection! in the past ten weeks), but I'm alive, I'm doing well, Ellie is doing very well although honest to god I thought babies were supposed to sleep more than this, and I'm hoping to get back on track with the comic now although updates are likely to stay shaky for a bit because, hey, baby. They really ought to come out holding a sign that says 'I Am Infant, Destroyer Of Sleep, and also incidentally YOUR BRAINS,' but the universe has once again failed to accomidate me in this.

Thank you all for the kind comments, and I'm sorry I didn't respond to them, and a special thank you plus apology to those who got caught in the moderation queue for the last two months because I sort of forgot I had a moderation queue (see 'I Am Infant, &etc'). I will try to do better.

Gerta has secretly loved Kay for years: now the Snow Queen has stolen him, and she's determined to get him back, no matter how long the way, how hard the journey, or how little he may want it. But who is she really rescuing?